Target Corporation's Expansion

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Target established itself as the highest-earning division of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation in the 1970s it began expanding the store nationwide in the 1980s, and introduced new store formats under the Target branding in the 1990s. The parent company was renamed the Target Corporation in 2000, and divested itself of its last department store chains in 2004. It suffered from a highly publicized security breach of customer data and the failure of its short-lived Canadian subsidiary in the early 2010s, although experienced revitalized success with its expansion in urban markets the United